While hosting a costume-making party inside a book store in Fulham, Middleton told one of the six-year-old attendees that she bets the "tomboy" girl will "love pink and love princesses" by the time she turns ten, prompting an objection from another young mock-party-goer.

"I hate princesses," said the little girl, surprising Middleton with her candor. "Better not talk about that one," she replied.

The devil-horned iconoclast went on to explain that she simply prefers vampires.